XQuery Expressions
This topic describes XQuery expressions.
In This Section
- Primary Expressions (XQuery)
Describes XQuery primary expressions. These include literals, variable references, context item expressions, constructors, and function calls.
- Path Expressions (XQuery)
Describes XQuery path expressions. These locate nodes, such as element, attribute, and text, in a document.
- Sequence Expressions (XQuery)
Describes XQuery operators to work with sequences of numbers.
- Arithmetic Expressions (XQuery)
Describes using arithmetic expressions in XQuery.
- Comparison Expressions (XQuery)
Describes the comparison expressions supported by XQuery. That is, the general, value, node comparison, and node type comparison expressions.
- Logical Expressions (XQuery)
Describes XQuery support for the logical and and or operators.
- XML Construction (XQuery)
Describes XQuery constructors that allow you to construct XML within a query.
- FLWOR Statement and Iteration (XQuery)
Describes the FLOWR iteration syntax. This stands for FOR, LET, WHERE, ORDER BY, and RETURN. In SQL Server 2005, LET is not supported.
- Ordered and Unordered Expressions (XQuery)
Describes the ordering mode for XQuery operations. By default, the ordering mode is set to ordered.
- Conditional Expressions (XQuery)
Describes XQuery support for the conditional if-then-else statement.
- Quantified Expressions (XQuery)
Describes the existential and universal quantifiers in XQuery.
- SequenceType Expressions (XQuery)
Describes the SequenceType syntax in XQuery.
- Validate Expressions (XQuery)
The validate expression is not supported.
See Also
Other Resources
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